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Around the plaza rail, if you can picture this, then instead of there being 5 feet between the spaces, there would be 3 feet between the spaces. You did this historically speaking about nearly 30 years ago when you exempted 12 spaces around bart plaza at market and maupblt montgomery street. There is precedent here. In fact, youve granted exemptions in no less than 40 resolutions over the years for the street Artist Spaces so long as there wasnt a Public Safety problem, of course. That really is it. I wanted to stress it would be a oneyear pilot program. Your exemption would be for a year and ...

Feet and exceed the height dimension by two feet, they would make it 7 feet tall. If you were to approve this Pilot Program and the redesignation of these 47 spaces, it would be with the exemption from two regulations, the regulation that says a street artist space must be no more than 4 feet wide and the regulation that says that it can be no taller than 5 feet and then theres a third regulation and that is that street artist displays cannot be within 5 feet of each other. So if you increase each space around the plaza rail, if you can picture this, then instead of there being 5 feet between ...

Next speaker. Good afternoon, im donna figarota with the Union Square Business district. I just wanted to talk a little bit about the background for this project. It grew out of a larger vision for Hallidie Plaza that was developed by the bid Streetscapes Committee that would create better access from the top to the bottom with a inaudible approach that would allow for a larger range of activities like flower stands, and the street artists being a very important part of Hallidie Plaza were folded into that. Right now the artists when they exist, they are lost in the confusion of people, street...

To hire a licensed engineer to come by and basically take a look at our plans and see whether it is flood. We are human too, maybe make a mistake. During the whole time, since, you know, 2008 that we have been at this, not once they have consulted an engineer or a licensed architect to come by and say, hey, your plans do not work and causes an issue. As for the sidewalk, again, we had the same issue with the directors hearing at the dpw, we hired an outside consultant, my client paid for an outside consultant to look at it and their finding was that, you know, there was no impact on the surrou...

The bid is also willing to pay for these displays. It would be a voluntary program, okay, this is not coming out of the street artist money and its totally voluntary. If the street artist doesnt want to do it, fine. But we want to give it, like, a oneyear trial period to see how it would work out. Also what i wanted to call your attention to is that by law the street artist displays are 3 feet deep this way by 4 feet long this way, and no taller than 5 feet. And the design that the bid and the Art Commission staff came up with would exceed two of those dimensions. They would exceed the length ...